Donald Stewart, in Edinample

1734 - 1806  (72 years)

• Name	Donald Stewart
  Suffix	in Edinample
  Born	1734	Methven, Perthshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Died	1806	Lochearnhead, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  Buried	Balquhidder Kirk Yard, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  Person ID	I15888	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family	Margaret Murray-alias-McGregor,   b. Abt 1735, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Married	24 Jan 1761	Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  Children	1. John Stewart,   b. Abt 16 Aug 1761, Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Bef 1779, Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 17 years)  [natural]   2. Patrick Stewart, in Lochearnhead,   b. Abt 7 Aug 1763, Balvoin, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1820  (Age ~ 58 years)  [natural]   3. Helen Stewart,   b. Abt 1 May 1766, Balvoir, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1814  (Age ~ 49 years)  [natural]   4. Mary Stewart,   b. Abt 7 Aug 1768, Croft of Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   5. Robert Stewart, in Glasgow,   b. Abt 11 Aug 1770, Croft of Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1820  (Age ~ 51 years)  [natural]   6. Janet Stewart,   b. Abt 4 Apr 1773, Croft of Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1814  (Age ~ 42 years)  [natural]   7. Duncan Stewart, in Derry and Woodline,   b. Abt 22 Dec 1776, Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 12 Jan 1839, Woodlane, Blair Drummond Moss, Kincardine, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 62 years)  [natural]   8. John Stewart, in Kirkline,   b. Abt 19 Jul 1779, Croft of Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1872, Horton Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 92 years)  [natural]   9. Donald Stewart, in Kirkline,   b. Abt 6 Dec 1781, Croft of Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1820  (Age ~ 40 years)  [natural]   10. James Stewart,   b. Abt 2 Jun 1782, Edinample, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Bef 1820  (Age ~ 37 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2024
  Family ID	F4223	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Donald Stewart in Lochearnhead and Edinample was presumably born in Perthshire, Scotland, perhaps in Methven. According to family records he was born in 1734 (location not identified) and died in 1806 in Balquhidder and is buried in the Balquhidder Kirk yard (although there is no record of a stone.) According to Stewarts of the South, Donald was descended from the family of the Stewarts of Druimcharry, a cadet branch of the Stewarts of Atholl, and related to the Stewarts of Garth. In the mid-17th century, the Druimcharry Stewarts held joint ownership in the property of Dalveich on the north shore of Loch Earn in Balquhidder parish, along with the family of the Stewarts of Dalveich. The author of Stewarts of the South said "But I think [Donald] was a MacanDahulic, but it is no matter [as] he was both honest and industrious." The Gaelic has been somewhat corrupted or at least compressed here so there are two possible renderings of "macanDahulic": it could a corrupted form of mac Iain Dubhlaic, or "John the Badly Behaved", or more colloquially, "John the Scoundrel", or it could be mac an dubh chulloch which means "son (or clan) of the black boar" which is believed to be the name of a cadet branch of the Invernahyle Stewarts of Appin who settled in Glen Finglas. John would be the patriarch of the clan from which the author of Stewarts of the South believed Donald was descended. When the author says "but it is no matter [as] he was both honest and industrious" it could mean "Donald is descended from John The Scoundrel, but Donald himself was both honest and industrious." Donald Stewart was employed as a wright for the family of Campbell of Auchlyne and resided in Methven, Perthshire. He moved with his employer from Methven to Edinample prior to the birth of his first child. Balquhidder OPR confirms that Donald worked as a wright at Edinample and resided nearby at Lochearnhead. Many of his descendants continued in the family occupation as mechanical wrights in Glasgow and later generations went into automobile manufacturing. Several of the descendant branches of this family later emigrated to New Zealand. Donald Stewart married on 24 JAN 1761 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland to Margaret MURRAY-alias-MCGREGOR. The parish register records them both as being "in this parish".